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03-15-02, 02:29 AM
My family pays $65 a month to Echostar just for PrimeTV, Tv Asia, ZeeTV, ZGold, B4u, and Sony Entertainment Television.
Our total montly bill is like $120 or $130 a month. I was wondering if there are some other satellite dishes where you can get PrimeTV, Tv Asia, ZeeTV, ZGold, B4u, and Sony Entertainment Television FREETOAIR?
I heard somebody once say that you can get them freetoair on Smallear satellite dishes, but I looked at the small ear website( www.smallear.com/ (http://www.smallear.com/) ) and they didn't have those channels.
Does anyone know how I can get PrimeTV, Tv Asia, ZeeTV, ZGold, B4u, and Sony Entertainment Television free to air?

03-15-02, 09:00 AM
C-band, maybe?

03-15-02, 04:48 PM
There is also FTA stuff on Ku-band, check lyngsat.com for details on specific birds.

03-16-02, 05:31 PM
Will the PQ ever improve on SONY Entertainment?
Its very blurry. ZEE TV content is crisp and clear, but SONY has the better shows.

03-17-02, 07:35 AM
Checkout mpeg forum at www.delphiforums.com

You will find that most foreign signals can be received using DVB receiver slaved to analog C/ku receiver with BUD.

However, this may change in the next year, as the Australian multilingual DTH service, TARBs, has just announced they plan to start a US pay service, using 10 G5 ku transponders. They hope to move all foreign FTA DVB services to their platform